In the week ending May 14, 2011, domestic raw steel production was 1,810,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 74.0 percent. Production was 1,808,000 tons in the week ending May 14, 2010, while the capability utilization then was 74.8 percent. The current week production represents a 0.1 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending May 14, 2011 is up 0.5 percent from the previous week ending May 7, 2011 when production was 1,801,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 73.7 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through May 14, 2011 was 34,558,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 73.8 percent. That is a 5.6 percent increase from the 32,736,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 71.4 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending May 14, 2011 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 82; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 147; Lake Erie: 41; Detroit: 116; Indiana/Chicago: 477; Midwest: 265; Southern: 593 and Western: 89. |
